Sentences with phrase «wave of opposition»

What began as a few local ripples of resistance to coal - fired power plants is quickly evolving into a national tidal wave of opposition from environmental, health, farm, and community organizations as well as leading climate scientists and state governments.

A wave of opposition to followed the court's decision.

It was met by a huge wave of opposition by obstetricians, by radiologists, by the nuclear industry.

What differentiates this new wave of opposition from that of a few years ago is that today's frontrunners of euroscepticism are most active on the right of the political spectrum.

A Popular Acclamation of Sanctity The speed of Pope John Paul's beatification (as well as other, I suppose predictable, criticisms) led, when it was announced in January, to a wave of opposition to it which I have to admit I found deeply depressing, predictable or not.

In regards to the story, The Division has some strong things going for it, presenting an intriguing what - if scenario that'll have players push forward through waves of opposition just to see what will happen next.

Not exact matches

Even without the kind of success Planned Parenthood experienced under Richards, some pro-life leaders said their movement's opposition — which now enjoys a broader coalition of religious voices and a wave of enthusiasm from millennials — would be just as fierce.

Cast your mind back to a couple of seasons ago, when Arsenal had been knocked out of both domestic cups by lower league opposition and then waved goodbye to any hope of a title challenge and been taken to pieces at the Emirates by Bayern Munich.

The Writers criticism of supporters waving WENGER OUT BANNERS is wrong.Supporters have every right to show their contempt of this man who has now made himself the point of ridicule and a laughing stock within the football world.Im talking opposition supporters, tv and press as well as the ever increasing majority of the Arsenal Fanbase.Who ever wrote this article has misjudged the mood of the support and is badly mistaken if he feels his comments will carry any credibility.How many WENGER IN banners are held up each match?The only chants for Wenger to stay are from our opponents fans.Of course they want him to stay.Why wouldn't they?

The most frustrating factor of the match is that the side once again looked like they lacked knowledge of a Plan B. We've said it time and time again when Arsenal have dropped points, that if a team works out how to stop our waves of attacks, then the opposition can often hold out for 90 minutes.

During those early days of his breakthrough into the first team, there was a sense that he was riding the crest of a wave of good fortune, that his luck would eventually run out and that opposition managers were simply unable to deal with such an unknown quantity.

There is no new idea already complete and waiting in the wings, requiring a wave of popular opposition to neoliberalism to enter stage left.

The head - to - head came as Mr Corbyn was hit by a fresh wave of shadow ministerial resignations today which are designed to force him out by making it impossible for him to form a working opposition.

The organic movement arose as part of a wave of environmentalism that sprang up in opposition to the industrialisation of British agriculture that occurred in the immediate post-war years.

But any boat - rocking has often run in parallel with the Labour leader's ability to make the type of waves that put Her Majesty's Opposition in decidedly choppy waters.

In a statement Wednesday, Nassau Republican chairman Joseph Mondello alluded to the wave that elected Democrats Tuesday as a natural blowback similar to the one that gave Democrats control of the county legislature for the first time in 1999, or when Republicans retook power in 2009 after President Barack Obama's policies had energized the opposition.

Hyprocritical Cabinet ministers have waved through THREE beer tax rises — despite campaigning to halt them in opposition - The Sun > Jonathan Isaby on Comment yesterday: Stop increasing tax on our pints of beer!

«The fact that the APC government to have presented a list that reflected the opposition alone is a confirmation that the fight against corruption under President Buhari is merely political and must be dismissed with a wave of the hand,» a US - based political commentator, Remi Badru, said.

Then Thatcherism swept all before it; the Labour opposition fractured; the trade union movement — the backbone of the left in the broadest sense — was pummelled; and then the Soviet collapse unleashed a tidal wave of capitalist triumphalism that swamped even democratic leftists who abhorred Stalinist totalitarianism.

Clockwise from top left: A large EU flag is waved across Maidan on 27 November 2013, opposition activist and popular singer Ruslana addresses the crowds on When the Russian Civil War broke out, on 12 February 1918 Yuzovka was part of the Donetsk - Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.

On May 5, 2015, a group of civil rights organizations released a statement in opposition to the growing movement to opt out of the current wave of high - stakes, standardized testing.

The election of Barack Obama to the Presidency sent a shock wave through many white Americans that manifested in opposition to him far beyond what can be explained by mere partisan politics.

After a wave of criticism and opposition from Speaker John Boehner, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and Budget Committee ranking member Chris Van Hollen, among others, Obama scuttled the proposal.

But the opposition parties warn it's a ticking time bomb that will herald a new wave of public sector job cuts and provoke a downgrade of Ontario's debt rating, jacking up borrowing costs that are already consuming about $ 11 billion a year — its fourth - largest expense.

There's Deathmatch (yes, like always, it's all about the killing), Infiltration (which has you going against the opposition to accomplish objectives before them, earning you points towards the victory), Capture the Greased - up Deaf Guy (Capture the Flag with a twist, of which has you chasing around a naked and greasy man to get hold of the flag), and finally Multiverse Madness (a Horde like mode, which sees you teaming up to take on waves of AI opponents from the different universes in the game).

One of the sport's modes turns the sport right into a soccer match with 4 gamers, whereas one other pits a staff of gamers in opposition to waves of enemies.

The opening salvo of stock footage of «domestic bliss» (young families beaming at each other across their spotless kitchens) was in keen opposition to the closing shot of Keil waving from her balcony atop a Chicken Cottage in Shoreditch.

The then Labor opposition leader Kevin Rudd rode a wave of support for strong climate action, and took office from a Coalition government perceived as weak on climate change.

Mishchenko, M.I., V.K. Rosenbush, and N.N. Kiselev, 2006: Weak localization of electromagnetic waves and opposition phenomena exhibited by high - albedo atmosphereless solar system objects.